Founders

Ever have the feeling your idea can 100x blow up but can’t convince VCs

A personal story that may be helpful to other founders.

I started /opacity a year ago. I remember annoying @dwr.eth, @v, @linda etc about how much of a game changer zkTLS would be for crypto.

No one cared. No hard feelings, there was no reason to care. You shouldn’t be distraught when no one cares.

Pulled up our sleeves, and when into hypothesis testing mode. Had a few successes with novel crypto businesses enabled by our tech.

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A few months ago we did our seed fundraise that probably ended up in best case scenario. Now zkTLS is the hot thing and my DCs are rekt.

https://x.com/sreeramkannan/status/1846256002284638547?s=46

Don’t give up, no hedging / full send, and know the game you’re playing.

I hope some of y’all have a similar experience 🫡

haardik.dev | education @learnweb3 | cooking @ nucleo finance

Yes,

https://warpcast.com/eulerlagrange.eth/0x4022fbff

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

/quilibrium

Best part is when you kill a startup, then meet a VC from your raise loop half a year later, and they tell you they invested in a similar project just recently because the narrative is now heating up